This year marked the second annual Fort Smith Slopitch Tournament, and the turnout far surpassed that of the inaugural year. This year 14 teams registered for the event, over twice the number of last year’s six. Teams travelled from across the NWT and even Alberta to take part in the weekend long tournament.

The Fort Smith Northstars proved they were the cream of the crop during last weekend’s Coors Slo-pitch Tournament, going undefeated through the round robin and playoffs to capture the title on Monday afternoon. “It was a really good tournament,” the Northstar’s Matt Bourke said moments after his team defeated the South Slave Selects 12-2 in [...]

They may have come out on the losing end of the Hazard’s Women’s Hockey Tournament final, but you wouldn’t know it by talking to members of the Hay River Explosive team following the game. The team, who had survived a scare in their semi-final game against the High Level Cruzers, had little time to catch [...]